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If you want to grep for two strings? say fish OR fowl in your file: | If you want to grep for two strings? say fish OR fowl in your file: | ||
$ egrep 'fish|fowl' file | $ egrep '(fish|fowl)' file | ||
To show all lines that do not start with a # (commented out): | |||
# grep -v ^# /etc/inetd.conf | |||
If you want to search for the some string resursively through subdirectories: | |||
$ grep . -name "*" | xargs grep "some string" | |||
(someone please optimize the above) | |||
Latest revision as of 12:25, 21 October 2007
If you want to grep for two strings? say fish OR fowl in your file:
$ egrep '(fish|fowl)' file
To show all lines that do not start with a # (commented out):
# grep -v ^# /etc/inetd.conf
If you want to search for the some string resursively through subdirectories:
$ grep . -name "*" | xargs grep "some string"
(someone please optimize the above)
